Since the first Republican presidential debate was held, the race has quickly boiled down to a few chosen favorites to take on the task of making Barack Obama a one term president. Romney still stands as the clear cut favorite, a charismatic friend of big business who knows how to smile for the camera. But surprisingly other major candidates have seemingly fallen flat. The last anyone heard of Tim Pawlenty was after he was declared the loser of the second Republican debate. Tail between his legs and shoulders hunched, Pawlenty seems to have crawled back into the dog house reserved for likes of Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson: outcasts and freaks of the GOP. And Gingrich is cursed to be Gingrich – he’s been dead in the water for years now.
Yet the most debilitating and reprehensible aspect of the second debate was that Michele Bachmann – the crusading calumniator who lacks any sense of American history – was declared the winner. Bachmann represents a large step backwards in American politics. She is a lunatic who believes that God handpicked her to be President of the United States. She is the face and voice of the Tea Party, while in her mind she is the right hand of God here to smite the sinners (liberals, gays and conscientious objectors) off the face of the planet.
At face value, Michele Bachmann is a nincompoop who says whatever comes into her head and has never once even considered using a fact checker. But when one digs deeper into the heart of darkness that is the Bachmann America, one discovers something much more terrifying. When you look hard into the eye of that storm, you find something that is inherently racist and narcissistic, something that is both stupid and wrong, and something that gaining ground. The Bachmann train is a well calculated movement that eats the hearts of many, and shits on the foolish that stand against it. Not with facts, but with undeserving support and an unwarranted sense of accomplishment.
Say what you want about the similarities between Bachmann and Sarah Palin, but there are key differences. Sarah Palin may be nuts, but Michele Bachmann is crazy. Palin likes to be known; it is doubtful that she really wants to be president, because she knows better than anyone that history would not be friendly on President Palin. She likes the money and the fame, but nothing else. Bachmann, on the other hand, believes with all her heart that she is supposed to be president, and will stop at nothing to reach that goal. And what’s worse is that people are eating this up. Those stupid enough to believe that Bachmann is a modern day prophet and weapon of God will go to hell and back just to see Bachmann make waves. And that is very scary.
Bachmann is something new to American politics. Never before has someone so hysterically unqualified been pushed to such a national level that it makes the rest of us uncomfortable and legitimately afraid of the reality of a World War III. She would be the first president since Truman who wouldn’t have to think twice or bat an eye at dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere in the world, just to kill people who she doesn’t understand. After all, she answers to a higher power than we do, one that doesn’t approve of turbans or burqas.
On a domestic level, Bachmann’s “politics” make little to no sense. She thinks that by destroying minimum wage, more jobs would be created. She believes that carbon dioxide is harmless. To her, the American Revolution started in New Hampshire, not Massachusetts (I guess historians meant the other Lexington and Concord). She believes that many Nobel Prize winning scientists believe in intelligent design. She refuses to fill out the 2010 census forms for her and her family. She believes the swine flu only comes out during the terms of Democratic presidents (Carter and Obama). For her, climate change is a laughable hoax. She believes there is some kind of dark and evil homosexual conspiracy out to get her (perhaps with Illuminati overtones?). She claims that Terry Schiavo was perfectly healthy when they pulled the plug on her. But at the bottom of everything, Michele Bachmann somehow thinks that either the gays or the blacks are the ones to blame in today’s America.
Looking at her long list of character defects and simpleton expressions, it’s hard to see exactly how Michele Bachmann got to be so important that many will sacrifice their souls to vote for her on Election Day. Yet that is exactly what has happened. She has conned the American people into thinking they are in danger of a black extremist who will put together an army of terrorists, gays, socialists, communists, Marxists, Muslims, rapists and murderers who will come to their houses in the middle of the night to get retribution for crimes they have not committed. This is the America that Michele Bachmann represents. A nation of three hundred million lost souls who will do whatever it takes to get a better spot in heaven, even if that means damning their friends and neighbors to hell. The horror, the horror.
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